title: Finding the borderline's border: can Martha Rogers help?
abstract: The psychodynamics of the client with a borderline personality disorder are reviewed within the context of Martha Rogers' Model of Unitary Human Beings. Emphasis is placed on the phenomena of transference and countertransference, which are viewed as resulting from the continual mutual interaction of human and environmental energy fields. Nursing interventions are postulated based on recognition of the fact that the nurse constitutes a significant part of the borderline client's environmental energy field.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Thompson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D003379:Countertransference; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D014167:Transference, Psychology